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Everyone deserves access to the outdoors. Unfortunately, many of our communities do not have nearby nature or safe places to explore and enjoy the natural world close to where we live, learn, work, worship and play. Only one in five kids can safely walk to a park or a playground, and access is even …

Dec 4 (Reuters) - The Green Climate Fund, designed as the United Nations’ most important funding body in the battle on climate change in developing nations, launched its headquarters on Wednesday in South Korea, but uncertainty over finances clouded the event.<p>The launch was largely symbolic, as the …

Several leading climate scientists have embraced nuclear power as the way to lick global climate change and there's a new movie out trying to make the case.<p>We understand the urgency. Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the …

Bill Gates is once again speaking out against the internet-first approach many tech leaders have taken to philanthropy. "As a priority? It’s a joke," Gates tells the <i>Financial Times</i>, when asked about how Mark Zuckerberg's plan to bring the whole world online compared to malaria research. "Hmm, which …

Motorola has unveiled Project Ara, an open-source initiative for modular smartphones with the goal to "do for hardware what the Android platform has done for software." The company plans to create an ecosystem that can support third-party hardware development for individual phone components — in …

Celebrity comedian's critics miss the point on urgent need for 'revolution' to avert planetary extinction - yet question is still how<p>During his Wednesday night interview with Jeremy Paxman on BBC Newsnight, comedian and actor Russell Brand said what no politician or pundit would ever dare say: that …

<b>Is the raw stuff we devour - plastic, steel, concrete, energy - going down even as the economy grows?</b><p>Imagine that every year, every one of us gave birth to an eight-year-old made from steel. Disturbing image.<p>Now go further. Imagine that you also gave birth - everyone, male and female, young and …